Improvement in cigar-machines



JOHAN 'LAURI-TZEN, OF

NEWARK, NEW JE eser Leners Patent No. 107,927fdaaa october 4,1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN CREAR-MACHINES.

The Schedule referred t in these Letters Patent and making pari; of the same.

I, J oHAN LAURrrznN, of Newark, State of New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in Implements for Making Gigars,of which the following is a specication.

Mynvention relates to an adjustable gauge of thev quantity for filling fora cigar.

Figure 1 is the sliding piston, given in a side, .a bottom, and a sectional View.

Figure 2 is a side.a middle sectional, anda, top view of the outside of the gauge, with the piston in` its place; i

Figure 3 is a side, a middle sectioiial, and a bottom view of a portion of the shaping-mold; and

Figure 4 is the under part of the same.

lhe shape of a, fig.v 1, is longitudinally that of a cigar, &c.

rlhe piston a, fitting the inside of d, moves freely therein. V

In the top-view e, across the inside of the case d, are`shown two cross-bars, f and g, the ends of which are seen in the side view of the case d;

-To these bars are alixed the springs h and i, that force the piston up when pressed down.

Two set-screws, j and k, pass through -the bars, by which the inside recess `below the piston a, in the case gli., is adjusted to the needed capacity for quantity of lling. f

For molding the cigars, any desired number of shapers, shown by 1, 2, 3, iig. 4, in section, and by a side view atl, (the section being taken at the dotted line in 1,) can be provided, the capacity of the press that may be used being the limit as to number.

Upon the bottom board fm., guides n are put to keep the shapers in a line, and to allow of the action of a j set-screw, o, at either or both ends of the board to. hold the Shapers together while-the cigar-'filling is under'pressure, and to allow an easy release and discharge of the contents of the molds.

The follower, g. 3, has as many projections u attached thereto as there are recesses.

The under sides of the projections, semicircular, as at p, in the sectional view from the middle ofthe length, form, by pressure, the cigar in the mold.

The at view q shows the shape of the under sides of the projections lengthwise of the follower, and of the upper sides of the recesses in the shaping-pieces when those pieces are screwed close together.

These implements are provided for the purpose of using tobacco that is in small pieces. The gauge is -lled by dipping and sideways pushing in thc mass of tine tobacco; then turned up and a leaf of tobacco, r, fig. 2, is laid upon and held to the gauge by the thumb and a linger of the` hand holding the gauge; the gauge is` then put over one of -the recesses of the mold. The ends of the nprights s, entering the notches shown` in the ends in the flat top view of the gauge in e, fig. 2, guide the gauge and hold it upa little above the mold, whilea finger upon the middle knob t presses the contents oi' gauge and the leaf r down into the mold, the springs returning the piston to its place.

The whole ofthe molds upon the board being filled, .the follower, iig. 3, is put in place, and all together are placed under a press. The tobacco being damp when used, and kept under pressure until nearly dry, is, when discharged from the mold, suiiciently stiff to allow the rolling by hand of the finishing wrapper. v

lihat I claim and desire to secure is- '.[he piston a, case d, springs h, and z', and set-scews j and k, constructed and combined substantially as and for the purpose set forth. p

JOHAN LAURITZEN.

Witnesses W.` M. GooDING, EDWARD GoLLvnR. 

